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NEW MOVIES!
FEBRUARY 20 - FEBRUARY 26, 2007
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AMERICAN HARDCORE (dir: Paul
Rachman, R) – In the 80s while you were busy voting for Reagan and getting your hair feathered, radical dudes like Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye were rocking the faces off alienated youths with bands like Black Flag and Minor Threat. This award-winning documentary will stand alongside THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION PART 1 as the definitive history of American punk rock. |
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^BABEL (dir: Alejandro Gonzales
Inarritu, R) - The director of AMORES PERROS and 21 GRAMS completes his loose-knit “death” trilogy with this intense drama that has become the dark horse favorite to pick up Best Picture at The Oscars next week. |
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*C.R.A.Z.Y. (dir: Jean-Marc
Vallee, Not Rated) – This French Canadian film about the perils of growing up has quickly become a staff favorite around here for its quirky humor and cool 70s soundtrack. |
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CROSSOVER (dir: Preston A. Whitmore, II, PG-13) – Two basketball-playing best friends work their way into the dangerous ranks of late night streetball tournaments. You should know, however, that, with a 1.2 out of 10, this film has the lowest User Rating of any movie in the entire Internet Movie Database. And you thought GIGLI was bad! |
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DIXIE CHICKS: SHUT UP & SING (dir: Barbara Kopple / Cecilia Peck, R) – This tremendously satisfying documentary will have you cheering for three classy ladies who had the wherewithal to speak their mind and then emerge from the hypocritical fallout stronger than ever. |
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THE FALL OF FUJIMORI (dir: Ellen Perry, Not Rated) – This documentary looks at the spectacular downfall of Alberto
Fujimori, the controversial Peruvian president who successfully battled homegrown terrorism with brutal tactics before being exiled to Japan amid corruption allegations. |
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FIFTY PILLS (dir: Theo Avgerinos, Not Rated) – Lou Taylor Pucci from THUMBSUCKER stars as a kid trying to 1) not get kicked out of college, 2) get rid of a pile of illegal pills and 3) win the girl of his dreams, played by adorable Kristen Bell a.k.a. VERONICA MARS. |
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FLUSHED AWAY (dir: David Bowers / Sam Fell, PG) – I was pretty disappointed with the first CGI film from the people behind WALLACE &
GROMIT. Hugh Jackman and Kate Winslet give lively vocal performances but there’s something too smooth about the animation and a distinct lack of quirkiness to the story. But there isn’t any singing. And any family movie without singing is already one step ahead. |
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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION (dir: Christopher Guest, PG-13) – But not as disappointed as I was by the latest Christopher Guest movie, a half-baked satire of Hollywood that Fred Willard defiantly tries to keep afloat to no avail. |
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GIULIANI TIME (dir: Kevin Keating, Not Rated) – Remember when Rudy Giuliani was a jerk before September 11th? This documentary is about that. |
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A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS (dir: Dito
Montiel, R) – A young man growing up in Astoria, Queens in the 1980s vows not to go down the same path as his friends since the path seems to only lead to drug addiction, prison or being dead. |
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KEEPING MUM (dir: Niall Johnson, R) – Maggie Smith. Patrick
Swayze. At last. |
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MADEINUSA (dir: Claudia
Llosa, Not Rated) – A young Peruvian girl befriends a big city geologist who accidentally gets stranded in her tiny village during Easter. From the good folks at Film Movement. |
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MAN OF THE YEAR (dir: Barry Levinson, PG-13) – Robin “RV” Williams turns in his best performance since FLUBBER in this uninspired rip-off of BOB ROBERTS. |
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PARADISE FOUND (dir: Mario
Andreacchio, R) – Kiefer Sutherland ditches torturing terrorists to play Paul Gauguin, who was a wicked good French painter who ditched the continent to live in Tahiti and die of syphilis. |
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THE PRESTIGE (dir: Christopher Nolan, PG-13) – I might even like it a little better than THE ILLUSIONIST. The lesson learned? Movies about magicians are just generally pretty awesome. |
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A WAKE IN PROVIDENCE (dir: Rosario
Roveto, Jr, R) – A young actor returns home to Rhode Island for his Grandmother’s funeral and upsets his traditional Italian family with his sexy African-American girlfriend. |
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WILDERNESS (dir: Michael J. Bassett, R) – A bunch of young criminals are sent to a remote island for a week in an Outward Bound-style program only to realize they are actually on the island to be systematically killed by somebody with a trained pack of wild dogs. |
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YOU ARE ALONE (dir: Gorman
Bechard, R) – If you’re a high school girl working as an escort, that’s your choice. Just don’t get upset when your pervy neighbor finds out and blackmails you. |
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ZEROPHILIA (dir: Martin
Curland, Not Rated) – A randy teenage boy with some crazy chromosomes discovers the ability to change between male and female at will. Apparently, “It’s AMERICAN PIE on crack!” |
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